Play opens Friday at KNOW Theatre

10:15 PM,
Jun. 12, 2013

From left, Tyler Downey, Jackie Tokos and Zachary Chastain star in the KNOW Theatre production of 'Vieux Carré.'

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When 27-year-old Tom Williams moved to New Orleans' Vieux Carré neighborhood in 1938, he found himself living in poverty among desperate, sometimes dangerous personalities. For many of its residents, the boarding house at 722 Toulouse St. was the last stop on a downward spiral.

Soon after leaving a few months later, the newly monikered Tennessee Williams would finally find the road to success as a writer - but his experiences in the French Quarter would reverberate throughout his work for the rest of his life.